As a supplement to the DVM360 Full Circle that I'm doing with Dr. Heidi Lobprise and Annie Mills at this year's CVC, I've put together some thoughts on pricing veterinary dentistry; how you and your team can address everyone's concerns about money and increase your client's compliance to preventative dentistry.
In my experience, there are two major reasons why veterinary … [Read more...]

Why settle for only one month of increased dental compliance and all of the team building and good health practices that go along with it? Wouldn’t it be nice to have the late-winter efforts of your team to boost client compliance stretch into spring, and then summer and fall?
In my work, I spend time with a diversity of practices. … [Read more...]

Setting up your practice management software to report accurately is critical. When it is right, it can teach us how profitable we are, how profitable we can be, what parts of our practice are growing, whether our marketing efforts are working, where we can reduce expenses, and on and on and on. Unfortunately most of us are asked to make decisions about how this practice … [Read more...]

by Bash Halow, CVPM, LVT
You know, sometimes all the team spirit, cupcakes, and casual Fridays in the world aren’t enough to keep team morale up. Sometimes you just need a good ole, hospital-wide project to pull everyone up by their boot straps, get the blood going, and rally the troops. That something is accreditation, or in our case, RE-accreditation, by the … [Read more...]

by Bash Halow, CVPM, LVT
There are only four of us in our tiny company, Brenda, Tiffany, Melinda and me. Collectively we spend more than one hundred hours a week working with dozens of veterinarians and veterinary professionals, all of whom are driven firstly by their interest in earnestly helping animals and their human companions. So, it’s especially infuriating to watch … [Read more...]